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    Here's something you don't see every day - a MIT scientist created an artificial intelligence that is psychopathic. On purpose.

    MIT scientists created an AI-powered 'psychopath' named Norman

    From the article:

    The team then examined Norman's responses to inkblots used in a Rorschach psychological test. Norman's responses were compared to the reaction of another algorithm that had standard training. That algorithm saw flowers and wedding cakes in the inkblots. Norman saw images of a man being fatally shot and a man killed by a speeding driver.
    and...

    Named after the main character in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," Norman "represents a case study on the dangers of Artificial Intelligence gone wrong when biased data is used in machine learning algorithms," according to MIT.
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    Re: AI psychopath created

    Originally posted by B. de Corbin View Post
    Here's something you don't see every day - a MIT scientist created an artificial intelligence that is psychopathic. On purpose.

    MIT scientists created an AI-powered 'psychopath' named Norman

    From the article:



    and...
    Wow! That's bizarre.

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      I read that yesterday. It's... disconcerting... not so much that an ai can be built like that, I'm not surprised. But that people would do it seems stupid.
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        I love that we're in a timeline where the DoD looks at AI and promptly seeks ethical guidance internally and externally while MIT decides that it would be awesome to build a psychopath bot. Granted, the stakes DoD plays in are infinitely higher than those of a random MIT researcher but I still find the comparison hillarious.
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          Originally posted by iris View Post
          I read that yesterday. It's... disconcerting... not so much that an ai can be built like that, I'm not surprised. But that people would do it seems stupid.
          That was my initial thought as well. But I'm wondering if an AI like that can help identify actual psychopaths before they end up hurting anyone. This feels like the beginnings of "Minority Report" type stuff.
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            Just what is this scientist wanted to accomplish it for anyway?

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              Originally posted by Juniper View Post
              That was my initial thought as well. But I'm wondering if an AI like that can help identify actual psychopaths before they end up hurting anyone. This feels like the beginnings of "Minority Report" type stuff.
              That would be a good thing at least. I have no idea how that would work, it would still have to come into contact with people to do that... I'm not sure I want a psychopathic ai on the internet scanning for real ones.. It sounds like the start of a sci-fi with a really bad ending.
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